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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Sakai in Japan

Posted by admin on October 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.1367S, 139.8059WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Sakai in Japan on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 16/10/24 / 2024-10-16 08:53:22 / October 16, 2024 @ 8:53 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000nyzs. Event ids that are associated: us6000nyzs. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.591 km (46 miles). Exact location, longitude 139.8059° East, latitude 36.1367° North, depth = 74.591 km. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:53:22 / 8:53 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Tokyo (c. 8 336 600 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Yokohama (c. 3 574 400 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kawasaki (c. 1 306 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Saitama (c. 1 193 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Yono (c. 1 077 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Chiba (c. 919 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Hachiōji (c. 579 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nakanojōmachi, Ōtsuki, Hayama (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km N of Sakai, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 139.8059° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.1367° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 74.591 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 4 km N of Sakai, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-10-16 08:53:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-16 09:36:43 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 340 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.351 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nyzs Id of event.
Event Code 6000nyzs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nyzs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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